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Caravaggio
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610
Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
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Painting ID:: 30272
Details of Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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Bloodthirsty murder,fear and horror
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Painting ID:: 30273
Details of Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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A wild and violent painter
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Painting ID:: 30333
Medusa
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1598-1599
Baroque
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Painting ID:: 30531
Saint Catherine
mk68
Oil on canvas
5'8"x4'4 1/4"
Madrid,Thyssen-Bornemiszxa Museum
1595-1596
Italy
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Painting ID:: 30537
Conversion of Saint Paul
mk67
Oil on canvas
7'6"x5'9"
Rome,Church of Santa
1600-1601
Italy
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Caravaggio
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610
Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
. Related Artists to Caravaggio: | Miroslav Kraljevic | Gerhard von Kugelgen | Antonio de Pereda | Frederic Dorr Steele | William Carpenter |
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